I can confirm that this bug is no longer present for me on my hardware configuration as of Lucid Lynx beta at least
-- [RV790] [ati] black X screen on startup with karmic hd4890 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs